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Nature
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Radvertising: Student Pulls The Moon Closer To The Earth With Trick Of Perspective [VIDEO]
14 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The White Night all-night arts festival is held in cities all across the northern hemisphere every summer. This year, a second year student from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem came up with an awesome concept to advertise the festivities in Tel Aviv.
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Enjoy The First Ever Photos Of The World’s Clearest Lake [GALLERY]
13 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Never before seen images of the world’s clearest lake have been released. The images capture a lake with crystal waters in hues of green and blue. Truly a beautiful sight.
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WATCH: Insane Time-Lapse Of Texas Thunderstorm [VIDEO]
12 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After four years of searching, Mike Olbinski finally got to capture the storm he had been hoping for. Click through to check out the crazy time-lapse.
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Facebook Billionaire Trashes Pristine Wilderness For His Wedding [GALLERY]
05 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook billionaire Sean Parker spent a hefty sum to give himself and his wife the wedding of their dreams on Saturday. But R24,543,750 is not what they owe in decor bills. Click through to see why.
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Famous Storm Chaser Dies While Chasing Tornado [VIDEO]
03 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Acclaimed researcher Tim Samaras, his son Paul Samaras, and Carl Young died on Friday in El Reno, Oklahoma, whilst tracking a gigantic twister.
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Cape Town Storm: A Full Round Up Of This Weekend’s Meteorological Madness [PICS+VIDEO]
03 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you weren’t around to see it yourself, here are some extraordinary photos of the sheets of white hail that covered the streets of Cape Town.
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The Lazy Man’s Guide: Take A 3D Tour Of Mount Everest With This Awesome App [VIDEO]
27 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new app has been released, that lets you explore and adventure around the tallest mountain in the world – and all from the safety and warmth of your own home.
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If You Want To See How Much Debris Flies Around Inside A Tornado, Watch This [VIDEO]
22 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Take a look at this crazy footage of flying debris and horror – incredible visuals you have never seen before.
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Everest Is Siff: Full Of Litter And Dead People
20 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Everest isn’t the place we thought it was. There may be snow covering the fierce mountain – but underneath its deceiving white plumage, you will find the bodies of people that have “climbed” before you.
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MILESTONE: The First Rhino Killing Of 2013
08 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
And there it is – not 10 days into the new year, a dead, de-horned rhino has been found in the North West. Click for story.
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Scientist Announces He Will Use A Blimp To Find Bigfoot
12 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Idaho State University professor of anatomy and anthropology, Jeffrey Meldrum, believes Bigfoot exists, and he has announced a project that will hopefully see him launch a blimp to prove his theory.
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Controversial Footage Shows 18-Month-Old Girl Introduced To Gorillas In Captivity [VIDEO]
17 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
22 years ago, Damian Aspinall did what many parents would consider to be reckless and irresponsible – he introduced his 18-month-old daughter, Tansy, to a group of gorillas at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent. He filmed the encounter but kept the footage private, until now.
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Awesome Predator’s POV, A Falcon’s Helmet Cam Goes Viral [VIDEO]
20 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Since their inception and mainstream introduction, helmet cams have given the masses some of the world’s most fascinating footage. Recently, a group of falconers in Abu Dhabi took things a step further and attached a minute helmet cam to a falcon’s head, and then took the bird out to the desert to hunt. The results are amazing to say the least. Sensitive viewers be warned though, the hunt does get a bit bloody.
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Second Volcano Erupts In New Zealand Creating Massive Island In The Pacific
10 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A mere three days ago we reported on a volcano that erupted in New Zealand after laying dormant for over 100 years. In the very same week, another volcano has blown its load. Luckily this time it’s underwater.
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Volcano In New Zealand Erupts After Lying Dormant For 115 Years [VIDEO]
07 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Holy rocks and ash! Mount Tongariro, located in the central North Island of New Zealand, has erupted after lying dormant for 115 years. The eruption brings with it a massive cloud of ash, 115 years worth, reminding us all of the chaos of Eyjafjallajökull. Luckily it’s not so serious this time around.
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Massive Underground Water Supply Found In Namibia Could Last For Centuries
23 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A newly discovered water source in Namibia could supply half of Africa’s driest sub-Saharan country with water for 400 years. The body of water, known as an aquifer, flows under the border between Angola and Namibia.
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American Student In Critical Condition After Brutal Chimp Attack In Nelspruit
02 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last week, a young American graduate student who was leading a tour at the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden, Nelspruit, was pulled into the chimps’ enclosure by two alpha males after entering a restricted area. He was brutally assaulted and suffered multiple injuries that left him in critical condition fighting for his life.
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Terra Sacra – A Time-Lapse Spanning Seven Continents Over Six Years [VIDEO]
08 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Very few people are privileged enough to travel the world and even fewer can say they’ve set foot on all seven continents. Thankfully we have been blessed with photographers like Sean F. White, who has not only accomplished both, but chose to record the journey and share it via an amazing time-lapse recording. Click through for a magnificent six-minute trip around the world.
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Brilliant Solar Flares Exploded From The Sun Yesterday [VIDEO]
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday NASA managed to capture the clearest-yet footage of a solar flare in process after magnetic fields on the Sun’s northeastern curve exploded in huge streams of plasma and sun stuff. The footage only accounts for about five seconds of explosion, but it’s very, very cool, both in and out of time-lapse.
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South Africa Is Home To The World’s First “Strawberry” Leopard
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Recently published photos have revealed what is believed to be the world’s first “strawberry” leopard. The big cat was discovered in South Africa’s Madikwe Game Reserve and is an incredibly rare find.
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Elephants Protect Female In Labour From Prowling Predators [PICS]
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
These pictures were taken in February at the Amboseli National Park in Kenya. An elephant was giving birth when a group of lions and hyenas mistook her newborn for a potential breakfast. But watch as the rest of the herd comes to the female’s aid by huddling around her until she delivers her calf.
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Google Street View To Reveal Great Barrier Reef [PICS]
23 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Street View is pretty great! It lets me see rural villages, the National Gallery in London, post-crisis Fukushima, and your house. And soon, in collaboration with the Catlin Seaview Survey, it’ll be letting people explore Great Barrier Reef as part of the expanding ‘Seaview’ project.
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The Yosemite Park Firefall Has Begun [VIDEO]
21 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For around two weeks each February, the sunset turns the Horsetail Falls in Yosemite Park, California into an incredible bright orange “firefall” that looks like flowing lava. And it’s happening right now – take a look at the video after the jump.
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Black Rhinos Transported Upside Down By Air [PICS]
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 10 Comments
The Black Rhino Range Expansion Project recently successfully transported 19 black rhinos 1 500 kilometres across South Africa. They did this by airlifting each rhino by its ankles before carrying it upside down! Read exactly why they do it this way, and see some amazing images of this process, after the jump.
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Lions, Tigers And Bears Follow Up: 50 Wild Animals Killed By Ohio Authorities
20 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Of the 56 wild animals – including six black bears, two grizzly bears, nine male lions, eight lionesses, one baboon, three mountain lions, 18 tigers, and two wolves – that escaped their private wildlife sanctuary in Zanesville, Ohio, only six were rescued; the rest have been shot by local authorities.
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Magnified Sand Is… Gorgeous [Photos]
13 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Next time you’re on the beach (and frankly, given the current weather in Cape Town, that may be later today), bear in mind that there’s more to the scenery than meets the eye. Sand is ba-yoodiful, too – beyond what our human eyes can perceive. Have a look at these shots of tiny grains of sand magnified to 250 times their real size.
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Nature, You Are Horrific: Spiders Take Over Trees In Wake Of Pakistan Floods
31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Human displacement aside, the floods in Pakistan have caused massive changes in the local ecology. With more than a fifith of Pakistan submerged, millions of spiders have escaped the rising waterline by moving into trees – quickly covering riverside treelines in cocoons of spiderweb. It’s creepy-looking.
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Monday Education: Whales Have Threesomes
24 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well I don’t know about you, but I think marine biology just got slightly more interesting. A 2005 paper observing a menage a trois coupling between right whales recently appeared online, with photos that are NSFW but only if your boss knows what you’re looking at or has a working knowledge of whale genitalia.
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Seven Creatures That Prove Nature Hates Us
21 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 15 Comments
For every cute little kitten, there are at least a million other animals out there that will literally eat your face off. Why? Because nature is an asshole, that’s why. While things like parktown prawns, great white sharks and rain spiders scare the bejezus out of me, they are nothing compared to these 7 creatures that prove that nature hates us and we are all going to die.
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